Make space to reflect, learn & talk.
Interview Megan Reitz
“When you're in uncharted territory and there isn't a clear how-to guide, one thing you've got to do is make space to reflect and learn and talk.”
Megan Reitz is Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School where she speaks, researches, consults and supervises on the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 ranking of global business thinkers and is ranked in HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers listing. She has written Dialogue in Organizations and Mind Time and her most recent book, with Financial Times Publishing, is called Speak Up which was shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2020.
She is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and her research has recently featured in Forbes, on the BBC, in two TEDx talks and in numerous academic and practice-based journals. Her latest research on employee activism was nominated for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award 2021 and her TED talk on the topic has been viewed more than a million times.
She is mother to two wonderful daughters who test her regularly on her powers of mindfulness and dialogue.
Examples of her work and contact details can be found at www.meganreitz.com
twitter @MeganReitz1.
Selected links from episode
Megan Reitz TED talk
Leading in an Age of Employee Activism, Megan Reitz and John Higgins
Radical Change, the Quiet Way, HBR, Debra Meyerson.
Transcript